2007 Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award

for the college undergraduate or graduate student
whose work in nanotechnology is deemed most notable

Submissions/nominations were due August 22, 2007

Winner of 2007 Award Announced

James Von Ehr, Founder, Zyvex Group; Robert A. Freitas Jr. of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, winner of the Prize in Communication; Fung Suong Ou, a Ph.D. candidate now at Rice University, winner of the Distinguished Student Award; Pearl Chin, President of Foresight Nanotech Institute

The winner of this year's award was announced at the Feynman Prize Luncheon on October 9, 2007 at the Productive Nanosystems Conference. A Rice University graduate student, Fung-Suong Ou, received the Distinguished Student Prize.

Fung Suong Ou is a Ph.D. candidate now at Rice University who has demonstrated that it is possible to use a combinatorial approach to build nanowires from dissimilar components. Specifically, he has fabricated multi-segmented one-dimensional hybrid structures composed of carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires.

Relevant Research Areas

Research areas considered relevant to molecular nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing include but are not limited to:

Distinguished Student Award Established in 1997

The Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award was established in 1997 and institutionalizes the first grant made in 1996 by Foresight to John M. Michelsen, a University of California at Irvine chemistry student.